Category Archives: Housing

Dismore challenges Mayor over Sweets Way and broken housing promises

I challenged Mayor Boris Johnson over the Sweets Way evictions and the Mayor’s broken pledge that people should not be moved from the place they have been living and where they have put down roots.     On BBC Radio London on 28 October 2010, the Mayor said: “What we will not see, we will not accept, any kind of Kosovo […]

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Mayor’s failing Rental Standard will take 103 years to hit target at current rate

London Assembly Member Andrew Dismore AM has questioned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s commitment to private renters in Barnet after it was revealed that at the current rate of progress it will take him over one hundred years to hit his target of getting 100,000 of the capital’s landlords signed up to minimum standards. Despite promising to hit is target by May […]

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Dismore challenges Mayor over rough sleepers

Andrew Dismore, Labour parliamentary candidate for Hendon and London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden yesterday challenged Mayor Johnson over his poor record on street homeless. (https://vimeo.com/120485732) Mr Dismore told the Mayor that the amount he allocated to rough sleeping initiatives had flat lined at £8.45 million for the whole of London and was set to stay that way into […]

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Dismore demands Mayor apologise to Mount Pleasant residents

Andrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, demanded that Boris Johnson should apologise to residents of Mount  Pleasant  for overruling local objections and approving the unsatisfactory Royal Mail Group scheme. (video https://vimeo.com/109699288) Mr Dismore asked the Mayor: ‘What was the point of you giving £150,000 to the Mount Pleasant Association to work up an alternative plan, […]

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Dismore Challenges Mayor over Barnet Domestic Violence policy

Andrew Dismore AM, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Hendon and London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden  has questioned London Mayor  Boris Johnson over Barnet Council’s policy for domestic violence victims, which will force them to declare themselves homeless to qualify for  emergency help.   (see video https://vimeo.com/109701120) Mr Dismore asked the Mayor about the consequences of Barnet’s policy and in particular […]

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